James Silas Rogers is a lifelong resident of Minnesota. He lives in a 120-year-old home in St. Paul, from which he walks to work at the University of St. Thomas, where he is managing director of the university’s Center for Irish Studies and editor of the journal New Hibernia Review. In addition to poetry, he has been working on a collection of essays involving burial places and sacred spaces. Portions of that work have appeared in New Letters, South Dakota Review, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and elsewhere.